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git clone git@bitbucket.org:{username}/{repo}.git

And I was unceremoniously delivered the following error

fatal: could not create work tree dir '{project}': Permission denied

My initial thought was the error due to server permission... being sudo.  This was tested by running the command

sudo git clone git@bitbucket.{username}/{repo}.git

Which generated the error

How to Create New MySQL User

Before you can create a new MySQL user, you need to open a terminal window and launch the MySQL shell as the root user. To do so, enter the following command:

sudo mysql –u root –p

or rather than typing sudo each time you can enter:

sudo su

mysql -u root -p

In either scenario next type in the root password and press Enter.

The prompt will change to

mysql>

In the terminal type, the following command:

sudo apt update

After typing the above command, enter your password.

This short guide explains to you how to extract/unzip .zip archive files to a specific or different directory in Linux.

Install zip

sudo apt-get install zip

Zip a directory

Zip your folder:

zip -r {filename.zip} {directory}

Unzip 

unzip {filename.zip}

I needed the check if a file existed in a directory as the migrate script wasn't recognising the file.  To check if a file exists:

FILE={your-directory-path}
if test -f "$FILE"; then
    echo "$FILE exists."
fi

If your directory path is /Users/{your name}/Sites/migrate/local_dest_dir/fish/../media/apple-store.png

A recent attempt to run an update composer (regular activity for many of us), I had a memory limit issue.  This was surprising because the memory setting via Plesk is set to 2G.  Yet through Terminal it was showing only 128MB.  What gives??  

The error I was seeing: